wants to end nukes she had only she'd actually come out and said as a result of what was going on in japan that nuclear power in germany was going to be considered transitional and would be phased out replaced the greens came out and said just shut them all down and they won the election she said this is because of japan that she lost she's right and this should also be our. coming out is there a special religious car about it when it comes to the first amendment right to free speech of talk of conservative radio is bryan fischer on what group he thinks is not entitled to the most basic right in america.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here see some other part of it and realized everything you saw you don't i'm sorry there's a big. welcome back to the big picture i'm so harvin coming up in this half hour. is one step closer to making health care a right not

a privilege governor peter shumlin joins us live with details on that state's need health care plan plus has the right to exercise religion fellow muslims out in america i'll talk to a man who believes that for you later in the show and could a governmental shutdown be just the thing republicans need to clinch the twenty twelve white house presidential seat i'll break down their strategy in tonight's daily take. even though it's been just over a year since what conservatives call obamacare i actually think he should be calling that the affordable care act was passed potentially the biggest victory for health care reform in america app and at the end of actually last week they were not state house as the nation's first single payer health care bill on thursday democratic governor peter shumlin so the legislation will create a system where health care will be a right and not

a privilege his words senators soon expected to pass the bill as well so does this passage of this legislation in vermont means something significant national for. health reform joining me now on the phone from vermont the man behind this huge progress and step forward governor peter shumlin governor welcome to our program well it's great to be with you thanks for having me you campaigned on this. in vermont for ten years and was out with bernie sanders every week some pretty up on what's going on there what was the response during the initial campaign. to you campaign on this issue well it was interesting i suspect as bernie sanders has said i may well be the only politician in america who ran on a single payer platform and ran t.v. ads saying if you like the governor we're going to pass a single payer health care plan lead the nation and as you mentioned make up your right not a privilege and you know i won the election it was in

a wide margin but we won and you know i intend to get it done i mean it's just incredibly important you know we live in a society where number one poor people low income people are increasingly little class people can't afford health care to get access. privileging not a right isn't it isn't in many ways a bigger step forward for health care reform than even obamacare well you know i don't want to get too carried away because you know we haven't passed it yet and we've got a long way to travel. you know plenty of landmines to confront yet as you can imagine there are plenty of people special interest insurance companies from super industry people who are making so much money off of our health of they're going to try their best for this down if they can i'm very optimistic they can do it and you know if we do i do believe we'll get health care right we'll get costs under control we'll be a state where health care follows the individual is required writing employer which

i think is a huge job creator and frankly if we can get it right i believe a stage will follow so you're expecting that if you are successful with this that. the saskatchewan model basically will happen i'm curious what you said you've got a bunch of roadblocks ahead of you are a bunch of potential bombs on the way the minute we have left what are the. well insured we're trying to do first is design a health care system that three things that don't happen anywhere else in america now i might point out they happen almost everywhere else in the world but not in america the first is as i mentioned that you want to cover probably finance health care second is a health care system where the requirement of an employer to provide health insurance is funded by all of us and therefore it follows the individual i say that's a huge job creator which is one of my goals a third and most importantly we're trying to move to a system where instead of reimbursing our hard working health care providers by

a fee for service system we're going to reimburse them based on healthy outcomes making our six hundred twenty five thousand homeowners healthier and all of these things frankly have been done in this country we want a simple system where your health care card is single payer go to providers office you come out and you to take your bill right there which states sick huge amount of money that same card is a pipeline to your medical records so that we can stop services and waste most importantly where our providers care. for keeping us healthy and all of that takes a certain amount of work hasn't been done yet so we have a five member board that was. going to sign the system come back to the legislature in twenty two of the twenty thirteen with the funding mechanism and we hope to push the send button on the plan and everyone covered by twenty fourteen which. is an

ambitious goal as you know it's much easier to lose and health care of and to win but i'm very optimistic that we can get it done and do it right here from a great governor shumlin best of luck thank you so much for being with us thanks so much for having me. recently more than two hundred doctors around the nation aside a petition vowing to move to vermont if the state creates a single payer system and i would love to show sold my house and she's friends with it they argue that they would rather heal sick people than deal with mountains of private insurance paperwork the petition was circulated by the organization physicians for a national health program or p n h b talk dr margaret flowers with p.h.p. joins me now to talk about why doctors are on board the single payer health care system first of all i got a subpoena is a great organization he noted your your conference in san francisco eight years ago i think it was or thereabouts and things are great bunch of people how are doctors getting harmed by insurance companies i was a know it not just working against people you know patients but great docs works

against providers as well you're right and that's why i left practice to do this work full time advocating for a single payer system you know we go to school and train and do our residency programs and train and how to take care of patients and then what you find out is that once you've seen the patient made a diagnosis and come up with a plan that then you're talking to insurance company administrators with no medical knowledge then tell you whether or not your patient can have the care that they need somebody with maybe a high school diploma if you're already looking at a computer screen of you know yes or no type of protocol and that making life and death decisions based on their lot on line which is profit not based on the health of the patient so it's very frustrating for physicians who spend a lot of their time getting authorization has been a lot of time doing paperwork it's it's a micro management of health care that undermines our integrity and our ability to practice you know based on our knowledge by our more doctors i know p.h.p. has about fifteen thousand one hundred eighty thousand in that time i spoke to

there was like look like a thousand people but it was pretty big but that's still only. part of the universe of doctors in america want more docs out there speaking out in favor of the majority of doctors do. favor this approach when they're polled yeah we have a poll from two thousand and seven that showed over a five year period a ten percent increase in the number of physicians that support this so at that time a number was fifty nine percent. physicians are busy they're trying to you know make it in. this of world right now and i know that when i was a practicing physician it wasn't until i started wondering why we were in this situation and started looking around that i discovered physicians for a national health program and one side discovered that it was like well this makes so much sense spacetime evidence is right works back when l.b.j. proposed medicare. initially in may just didn't seem to cure all that much about it it looked like they were just off loading the elderly and then when word came out the mr ball by the wall it would be that his name was who actually wrote the bill

but the cool was that every decade they would drop the entry age by ten years until eventually it covered everybody and they came out two weeks before him and they went nuts how's the other sunday they got right ronald reagan to make up that record right. how was the emmy handling this i was the fish and not just the the official doctor when they they may is really it's a organization that's following you know getting smaller and smaller it only represents fifteen percent of practicing physician was right i don't think it's probably we don't believe that their voice really represents the majority of patients you represent more than exactly if you look at our approach and how it's favored by the physician population yes and number of the specialty organizations are. starting to come on board or their membership is starting to push them to but it's one that's correct and we're pretty much out of time just one real quick

question how much time do you think the average doctor wastes doing paperwork for these banks years well i think it's around eleven hours rican spent. by the doctor prided ourselves right everything and then the rest of the staff is right and it takes away from time that we really should be spending with my paintings on sequential rockefeller's thanks so much melissa much thanks for all that he did with us for us congress so corrupted by money and lobbying from the for profit health insurance industry in america vermont may be our best bet to enhance the nationwide single payer health system is the same model of canada used to create its single payer system after the saskatchewan province created a single similar plan but then swept across the nation basically every state looked at it said that when red states stuck with big insurance corporation see how successful the vermont model is expect a wave of reform to sweep across our nation. for

hundreds of years scholars politicians and average political walks have debated just what the intentions were of our founding fathers while drafting parts of the constitution but bryan fischer the director of issues analysis need american family association claims he knows exactly what the intent of our early leaders were especially in regard to that first amendment that was he says they hate muslims last week fisher wrote in his blog quote islam has no fundamental first amendment claims for the simple reason that it was not written to protect the first move it was not reject the religion of islam first a memo was written by the founders to protect the free exercise of christianity they were making no effort to give special protections to islamic quite the contrary end of quote so could this possibly be the case but first i'm. only protecting christians let's hear from brian fisher and so he joins me now to talk about his new his line of reasoning on this issue brian walker the program. i'm

well i'm curious what do you have against peter selene from framlingham massachusetts. who is peterson i mean i'm framingham massachusetts he was a revolutionary war decorated hero he fought in the month of june seventeenth seventy five of the battle of bunker hill later he fought the battle of saratoga he had an audience with george washington for his bravery he was a muslim. i have nothing against him and neither do the founding fathers so you're not saying that the founding fathers did not intend the first amendment to protect the religious freedom of muslims. what i'm saying about the first amendment is that the founding fathers did not express really protect religious liberty for the islamic faith nor did they prohibit religious liberty for the islamic faith what they were out to do was to protect religious liberty of the christian faith and to exclude all right able read between the various christian denominations that were

active about keeping the original thirteen states very much and i'm the original thirteen states that have established churches and the thermostat was put out a very specific and technical meaning at the time it meant to have one christian denomination and that was how to perform some law and was supported by the taxpayers of that jurisdiction so when it came together to form a federal constitution that was an issue what are we going to do about the issue of establishment they'd come from england which had established a church sixteen tyranny that resulted so bad idea to have picked one christian denomination and make it be established church of the united states of america so that was the purpose of a person so tied to hands of congress who it couldn't pick won the nomination because the official church of the united states as far as the rest is concerned as far as dishonest concerned buddhism as far as who was in this concern they laughed left their issue up to the state so the state sort of considerable latitude in terms of what we do with religious expression for non-christian religions when

thomas jefferson died before he died he wrote his own tombstone epigraph and or apparatus or whatever it's and he did not ask that it be noted that he was the founder of the present states rather that he thought of the university of virginia and that he wrote the virginia statute for allegiance freedom which and became basically. choco became the first of many is quite proud of that and in fact he was the one who first proposed the the bill of rights to james madison in a series of letters and seventeen eighty seven and he. wrote his virginia statute for religious freedom that it and this these are jefferson's personal words that it and there for the for and he was also speaking in the context of the first amendment being based on it that it quote protected the jew and the gentile the christian and the more than the hindu and infidel of every

denomination. also in the treaty of tripoli in seventy ninety one as i'm sure you know george washington john adams said explicitly the u.s. has nothing against islam and these were our first three presidents and one wrote the declaration and it's one hundred right the constitution how can you say that they were against islam in pro procreation. remember one thomas jefferson illustrates perfectly my point if for can you want to provide a specific religious protections who are islam or hindu isn't buddhism they were absolutely free to do that there was no prohibition against profiling providing special protections in state constitutions so temper since her genius to actually religious freedom perfectly illustrates my point when it comes to the treaty of tripoli we need to understand that people need to read the whole expression here because what it says this is not a christian nation in the sense that it is not in a hostility group islamic does not in the sense i've read and i read not just this

afternoon. ok let me finish when i hear this was in contrast to the religion of islam which does have an innate hostility toward christian religion as the backdrop of that is the barbary coast pirates who were attacking and pillaging american merchant man so thomas jefferson others went over there to find out what is going on and he said well we have a religious duty to attack and plunder infidels that's what our religion teaches us to do and so the point of the treaty of tripoli look is we don't have the ability to produce not be a slump as that will be in a hostility toward the end for their own that's christians and jews but a christian nation based it does not you're suggesting then that congressman keith ellison a muslim a sitting u.s. representative should have no free speech rights no. i'm not saying i'm not the first amendment prohibits the free exercise of religion per is not i'm saying it doesn't deal with it oh so that issue then is a matter of courtesy and it's

a matter for states to decide and as i said of my gas where i think we have a greater right i i understand you're saying and i think you said very well thanks for dropping by tonight ok tom you've got. distorting the intent of our founding fathers is nothing new republicans do it all the time to wreak havoc on the middle class but doing it to spread hate and fear about an entire religion i have a problem with that i think it's inexcusable what else what else would you expect from the american family association organizations being deemed a hate group by the southern poverty law center. coming up in tonight's daily take the republican scheme to write president obama's faith resemble the doomed legacy of herbert hoover.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard luck is a big issue. it's the good the bad of the very extremely ugly first the good senator bernie sanders

said it's best and only democratic socialist is introducing new legislation that will put a surtax on millionaires and close tax loopholes for big oil companies like exxon the most profitable country in the history of the planet senator sanders said regarding his bill the emergency deficit reduction act that quote we have a deficit problem it has to be addressed but it cannot be addressed on the backs of the most vulnerable in this country the wealthiest people and largest corporation in our nation in this country have got to contribute got to talk about shared sacrifice well said he thought it could work during. a bad mississippi governor haley barbour jumping on the bandwagon of potential republican presidential candidates who are pledging to repeal the don't ask don't tell repeal barbour explains why he thought gays shouldn't be in the military. the closest to the growing on the soldier on the grown was the most opposed. and it's not

not necessarily over homosexuality it's over the back to when you're an under fire in people who live in. a seizure you know meet any amorous. man see it in a fixation people's lives and kill him by. amorous mindset. this guy's view of gays and soldiers is so far out of whack that it's almost funny it even sets up the old ridiculous canard about why women should be in there was not funny is the thought of barbara as president. and a very very ugly herman cain i have a feeling this republican candidate for president will make our list frequently over the next few years in an interview with think progress over the weekend cain was asked if he would consider appointing a muslim to work in his administration this was his response. i will not use why. there is this creeping until there is this attempt to

gradually ease to real low in the muslim faith into our government eat those not the moment in our government. that's just what i want a president a guy who's dangerously paranoid of muslims oh and a guy who clearly has not read the constitution particularly article four which states that no religious test can be required as qualification for public office herman cain very very of. it less than two weeks our government might shutdown if congress doesn't pass a budget and the republicans are perfectly willing to let that happen at some of even campaigned on the idea of letting the government shutdown that's even though

a government shutdown could have disastrous effects are already fragile economy. but there in lies the strategy the republicans have been pushing over the last two years and will continue to use through the two thousand and twelve elections if they can crash the economy then president obama will become the face of economic disaster just like herbert hoover was in one nine hundred twenty nine republicans will win the white house so they can handle last remaining wealth of america's working people over to their billionaire and billionaire masters that's why republicans have proposed tens of billions of dollars in spending cuts that will suck money out of the economy cost people their jobs and kill economic activity but president obama is fighting against these cuts right there what's best for the crop the economy right now actually. he's

capitulating. with the blessing of the president democrats are on the verge of proposing a budget plan that will include more than thirty billion dollars in spending cuts that's thirty billion fewer dollars circulating in our economy that's thirty billion fewer dollars in the pockets of al black sector workers who by the way spend pretty much every penny they earn just to raise their families stimulating the economy that's thirty billion fewer dollars that could go toward rebuilding our nation's infrastructure and putting unemployed people back to work so they're earning money and paying taxes rather than sucking down tax dollars it makes you wonder if president obama even understands the effects of these cuts. and on the other hand does he know that tax cuts for the rich have absolutely no

stimulative effect whatsoever but they just go into already fat bank accounts and sit there or you know rich people even move them offshore to switzerland or else if they've got a lot of money floating around cheap money it gets injected into wall street in a form that creates speculative bubbles which then crash our markets on the other hand federal programs like food stamps generate more than a dollar seventy in economic activity for every one dollar in the program why it's people spend all that money stimulating the economy goes from consumer to retailer to wholesaler grower i mean every step along the way it's making money federal spending is the definition of economic stimulus and it's been used every time our economy started to slow and every time it's been effective yet for some reason today federal spending is off the table but tax cuts for the rich just.

now we know why republicans are doing this but why is president obama on top of all that unemployment insurance is due to run out this year spitting more and more people off assistance rolls and further crippling working class families across america for reasons that i can't understand president obama negotiated a one year extension of unemployment benefits last year but recent publicans received their two year extension of tax cuts for the rich meaning heading into the two thousand and twelve election millions of people's unemployment benefits are going to run out of setting them and also crashing the economy and add insult to injury president obama has put jeffrey immelt the head of g.e. in charge of creating jobs. even though g.e. didn't pay any corporate taxes on fourteen billion dollars in profits last year

a big reason why our budget is such a mess and g.e. is the tories for shipping jobs overseas what's going on here our economy is facing a dark dark road ahead as president obama is playing right into the hands of republicans who really and truly and seriously are willing to ruin america for political gain after the two thousand and eight financial crisis our nation was facing a choice go the way of f.d.r.'s new deal of produce the forty golden years of the middle class from one thousand nine hundred nine hundred eighty or go the way of the conservative conservatives whose policies of tax cuts for the rich are created fourteen trillion dollars in debt ever since reagan first started this and impoverished working people ever since reagan declared war on working people shortly after president obama won the presidency in two thousand and eight time

magazine ran this cover speculating that he'd sweep into office in this time of peril and push through a new deal to uplift the working class just like f.d.r. did after all what he campaigned on but today more than two years into his presidency barack obama is looking more like f.d.r.'s predecessor herbert hubert hoover america's little play nero who let the great depression blanket our economy thanks to poor decisions and in action. and the stakes couldn't be higher after hoover blew up the economy republicans were banished to the political wilderness for almost a half century and today if president obama doesn't start making the right decisions and fight these insane policies that republicans are pushing then he will be responsible for destroying the democratic party for decades mr president work on you we need to fight for us because the republicans sure as hell a lot and that's it for the big picture tonight don't forget democracy begins when you get out there and do that to tag your it will see more.

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